Data Lake for Enterprises

What is Apache Hadoop?

Before going into Hadoop in detail, let's give you a high-level idea of what Hadoop is. This is the approach we have followed, and let's stick to that pattern for consistency.

Apache Hadoop is a framework capable of using a cluster of computers (need not be a server range but can be normal computers that you use in day-to-day life) to do distributed computing and also to store large amount of varied formats of data. Yes, you read it correctly, it can also be used for computing and this aspect is one of the fundamental aspects of Hadoop. We will be using Hadoop’s computing aspect, but a more important aspect of Hadoop that we will use is its capability for distributed data storage.

Due to its sheer capabilities and popularity, ...